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News and Opinions About the
California Testing Program
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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
State education officials get an earful of heated comments about the high school exit exam from parents, students and advocates. (Sacramento Bee) (12/16)
San Jose high school students are in a full-court press to pass the exit exam. (SJ Mercury News) (12/12)
Too many Sacramento seniors are sweating the exit exam. (Sacramento Bee) (12/10)
The NAEP results show many states' standards are lower than national ones. (NY Times) (11/26)
Schools make strong progress according to the API. (Sacramento Bee) (10/28)
Many San Jose area schools hit high API marks. (SJ Mercury News) (10/28)
Poway's district leaders send STAR test parent reports out twice, after their mailing house fails to get all envelopes in the mail. (SD Union-Tribune) (10/22/05)
San Diego area teachers get in trouble for giving their students too much "help" during test-taking. (SD Union-Tribune) (10/22/05)
Gov. Arnold vetoes a bill to let Spanish speaking students take tests in Spanish. (SD Union-Tribune) (10/7/05)
A bill to give disabled students a reprieve from the exit exam is vetoed by Gov. Arnold. (AP) (10/7/05)
The Sacramento Bee's editorial board affirms that the exit exam deserves to be fixed, not abandoned. (Sacramento Bee) (10/4/05)
As many as 100,000 seniors may not get a diploma because they have not yet passed the exit exam. (LA Times) (10/4/05)
More than a hundred San Diego schools hit the NCLB watchlist. (SD Union-Tribune) (9/21/05)
More schools are falling farther behind under the terms of the federal accountability measure known as Program Improvement. (Sacramento Bee) (9/21)
One-fifth of California's schools are on the NCLB Program Improvement watchlist. (SF Chronicle) (9/21/05)
Thirty-seven Bay Area schools hit the federal watch list. (SF Chronicle) (9/20/05)
Peter Schrag underlines the paradox of measuring progress. (Sacramento Bee) (9/8/05)
Schools that earn California's praise get scolded by the federal measure of progress. (LA Times) (9/2/05)
High school juniors' SAT scores rise again. (SF Chronicle) (9/1/05)
Activists challenge official data on the high school exit exam. (Sacramento Bee) (8/24/05)
Teachers wonder what may be causing the sixth-grade test score slump. (LA Times) (8/17/05)
Students show healthy test score gains in math and English-language arts. (SF Chronicle) (8/16/05)
One in ten high school seniors are struggling to pass the exit exam. (Sacramento Bee) (8/16/05)
Legislators press to blunt the impact of the high school exit exam. (SF Chronicle) (5/23/05)
Revised API growth scores are released, adding more than 1,300 APIs to schools that had lacked them. (LA Daily News) (1/20/05)
Most high school juniors (nearly 80 percent) aren't ready for college English, according to an early assessment by CSU researchers. (Sacramento Bee) (10/15/04)
OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
Peter Schrag predicts a train wreck ahead for the state's school accountability sysem. (Sacramento Bee) (7/20/05)
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